Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies Library

Studying Hinduism in practice /

Studying Hinduism in practice / edited by Hillary Rodrigues. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2011. - xiii, 194 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Studying religions in practice . - Studying religions in practice. .

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : studying Hinduism in practice -- Discovering a story / Brenda E. F. Beck -- Hanumān Jayantī in Maharashtra / Jeffrey Brackett -- Searching for Satī / Paul B. Courtright -- Pilgrimage to Kāmākhyā through text and lived religion : some forms of the goddess at an Assamese temple site / Patricia A. Dold -- The accidental pilgrim : Vaiṣṇava tīrthas and the experience of the sacred / Jason D. Fuller -- Dance and Hinduism : a personal exploration / Anne-Marie Gaston -- Just my imagination? : puzzling through a Duryodhana festival near Dharmapuri, Tamilnadu / Alf Hiltebeitel -- The wisdom of Kapila's cave : Sāṃkhya-yoga as practice / Knut A. Jacobsen -- Tablā, spirituality, and the arts : a journey into the cycles of time / Jeffrey Lidke -- Divine times : goddess worship in Banāras / Hillary P. Rodrigues -- A Himalayan exorcism / William Sax -- Experiencing sanskrit drama in Kerala : epic performances and performers / Bruce M. Sullivan -- Learning about HIndu practice : fighting late-colonial attitudes and discovering temples and festivals / Paul Younger.

9780415468473 (hbk) 0415468477 (hbk) 9780415468480 (pbk) 0415468485 (pbk) 9780203810286 (ebk) 0203810287 (ebk)

40019736614

2010053477


Hinduism.

BL1108.2 / .S77 2011

294.5